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. >> we have the real steve schmidt here. did that happen? >> we had a lot of discussions on the betting. i was not happy with the product. you have the process 10 weeks long that is distilled down into two hours per data of necessity some of the time lines are rearranged. but it is a true story of what happened. on the story of the vetting, we got to the end of the process. senator mccain had not determined who he wants to pick. we came down to the decision it would be a bit difficult set up with the election circumstances. we would be outspent by 200 million and president bush approval rating was in the thirties. obama was speaking to crowds hundreds of thousands in europe and a fervor with his candidacy to figure out how to win. i am the person who said we should look at sarah palin from alaska sam negara you proud of that moment? >> it to freezes and slows down. [laughter] we spent a couple of days that the jersey shore. i remember every aspect of the moment. i can smell the smell of long beach. i pick up the phone and i called rick davis
. >> we have the real steve schmidt here. did that happen? >> we had a lot of discussions on the betting. i was not happy with the product. you have the process 10 weeks long that is distilled down into two hours per data of necessity some of the time lines are rearranged. but it is a true story of what happened. on the story of the vetting, we got to the end of the process. senator mccain had not determined who he wants to pick. we came down to the decision it would be a bit...
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. >> the real steve schmidt here. did that happen? >> we had a lot of discussions. i wasn't happy with the product. in the movie obviously you have a process that is ten weeks long that distilled down in 2 two hours. out of necessity, the time lines are rearranged but the true story of what happened. the question of the vetting, we got to the end of the process and senator mccain hadn't determined he wanted to pick. we have the realization we can't win with any of the candidates as displayed in the movie and extraordinarily difficult set of elections circumstances. we will be out stamped by $200 that president bush's approval rating was in the 30s. barack obama was speaking to crowds of hundreds of thousands there was a fur for for his candidacy on the part of the crowd and trying to figure out how to win. i am the person who said we should take a look at sarah palin from alaska. >> are you proud of that moment? >> that moment freezes and slows down in my brain. it has been a couple days at the jersey shore. i remember every aspect of the moment. the smell of long b
. >> the real steve schmidt here. did that happen? >> we had a lot of discussions. i wasn't happy with the product. in the movie obviously you have a process that is ten weeks long that distilled down in 2 two hours. out of necessity, the time lines are rearranged but the true story of what happened. the question of the vetting, we got to the end of the process and senator mccain hadn't determined he wanted to pick. we have the realization we can't win with any of the candidates as...
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scenes and ferry would test someone so much less handsome than steve in the movie. >> so noted. this comes from someone on twitter. i would like you to hansard afterwards. given attacks by his own people on john mccain as manager and leader wonder if he would have been a good president. it comes from that discussion about enhance the trail in the movie but you said the sources you spoke with described him as not part of the management. what is your sense of whether he would be a good president? did feelings about him change over time? >> the vast majority of people think without a doubt from the point of view he would be a better president than barack obama but some in the campaign and you see this almost every losing campaign, some people i talk to you say based particularly on his performance in the financial crisis that gave them pause and something in the book. the one of the leading republican operatives, and chose not to vote. john mccain was troubled by his leadership and organizational performance. people close to john mccain and supporting him feel he would have been a
scenes and ferry would test someone so much less handsome than steve in the movie. >> so noted. this comes from someone on twitter. i would like you to hansard afterwards. given attacks by his own people on john mccain as manager and leader wonder if he would have been a good president. it comes from that discussion about enhance the trail in the movie but you said the sources you spoke with described him as not part of the management. what is your sense of whether he would be a good...
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. >> i'll tell you come a lot of republicans have moved out into surrounding counties, steve. one thing certain in this election, like past elections come in the southwestern of ohio will be pivotal. he's got to give that back and perform better in hamilton county than john mccain did four years ago. there is every expectation that will have been. i think a lot of ohio republicans have privately said they wished rob portman had been on the ticket. portman has a heavy presence and background in hamilton county in the southwestern corner of the state. it would've almost assured around the ticket would be very successful they are and probably would've put a shot of enthusiasm into the republican advocates that would not be measured by polls. i know the polls are showing portman was a marginal health, but i don't believe it because they think it would have been. at the end of the day, if a lot of republicans have moved, but they are still very have been the southwestern corner. as democrats and minorities, republicans must have the southwest corner. >> it is a larger sense of poli
. >> i'll tell you come a lot of republicans have moved out into surrounding counties, steve. one thing certain in this election, like past elections come in the southwestern of ohio will be pivotal. he's got to give that back and perform better in hamilton county than john mccain did four years ago. there is every expectation that will have been. i think a lot of ohio republicans have privately said they wished rob portman had been on the ticket. portman has a heavy presence and...
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thank you very much, steve. what i thought i would do is go over the recent activities rather than going terms of the varsity show changes, particularly because the libyan government has recently formed a new government parliament. one of the crucial issues to highlight is unlike egypt or tunisia, where is relatively peaceful resolution, libya was one that involved international intervention and particularly military intervention through nato. they come to a question of what is the responsibility afterwards a year and a half later with the security situation on the ground in the international role in securing and stabilizing the country. more importantly, was sent to an almost in parallel when we talk about arming the rebels and what happens later if the rebellion is successful in gadhafi does fall, what are you going to do with all the arms in the country? of course the formation of the national transitional council reassured people there'd be some element of control. in reality there was control for a long tim
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i have a copy of how capitalism will save us by steve forbes. please put your hand up. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you my best book. [laughter] >> i have another book coming. >> you own a ought to? does that make you enable%? >> a person that other people would like to me. [laughter] as my father liked to say money does not buy happiness, but it helps. do you think getting rich is a noble pursuit? >> real entrepreneurs get to rich by providing needs and services to others. if you get rich through crony capitalism it is a problem. >> does wall street is there period of excess as the prosecutors allege people are overpaid and greedy? >> to say greed causes the crisis is like gravity causes the airplane crash. there is excess but why did it happen? because of excess money creation by the federal reserve. you would never have an a housing bubble without the excess money. [applause] government failed. wall street responded to the crazy "alice in wonderland" system congress created. if not so many people go there start w
i have a copy of how capitalism will save us by steve forbes. please put your hand up. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you my best book. [laughter] >> i have another book coming. >> you own a ought to? does that make you enable%? >> a person that other people would like to me. [laughter] as my father liked to say money does not buy happiness, but it helps. do you think getting rich is a noble pursuit? >> real...
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> next we have a panel on america and where it is going, steve clemens -- steve clemons is the empress area of washington ideas. >> hey, folks. everybody is running to the thompson reuters counter. thank you for joining us. great to be with you. i am steve -- steve clemons, editor of large of the atlantic, i want to compliment the museum and tell you how historic this is. this is a jam packed day. the google party is coming up, this is one of three times in the history of the museum that they have allowed an outside group, the other happened to be the president of the united states and madeleine albright when she was secretary of state, this is the third time for a during the day session here, this is a great partnership. i think the -- i have a friend here, allen was the founder of circuit city, just apparently wrote the rise and fall of circuit city and to some degree they are uncomfortable truths, when you think of nations and companies, there are rise and fall stories and the united states is so clean not on the fall side but political campaigns are a lousy time to think about the
> next we have a panel on america and where it is going, steve clemens -- steve clemons is the empress area of washington ideas. >> hey, folks. everybody is running to the thompson reuters counter. thank you for joining us. great to be with you. i am steve -- steve clemons, editor of large of the atlantic, i want to compliment the museum and tell you how historic this is. this is a jam packed day. the google party is coming up, this is one of three times in the history of the museum...
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>> steve, i very much agree with steve's assessment. we have apple, but they don't make anything in america. that tell us we have a great engine still working, but, again, we made the cost and complexity of doing business in this country prohibitive, and as bill gates said earlier, we don't -- we have not risen our skill base enough to have employees who can earn the high wage that americans need to earn so i think -- i think all though entrepreneurship is part of the solution, and it's been bipartisan to support small business, frankly, i think we have to create an environment that supports all business, and if we're going to take advantage as we have historically on entrepreneurial and innovation success. i come back to the -- a lot of this is blocking and tackling a lot of it is being long term and being strategic, and our -- just aware of it, our business school alumni are all over the world, and they -- the -- our international alumni have been even more answer, -- anxious that the school took it on more and positive. we believe mo
>> steve, i very much agree with steve's assessment. we have apple, but they don't make anything in america. that tell us we have a great engine still working, but, again, we made the cost and complexity of doing business in this country prohibitive, and as bill gates said earlier, we don't -- we have not risen our skill base enough to have employees who can earn the high wage that americans need to earn so i think -- i think all though entrepreneurship is part of the solution, and it's...
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we go back further, look at steve kemp -- jack kemp -- not jack kemp. steve forbes. and 96. bd drown out voters? no. emits been his own money which is all you can do at that time on his own campaign, made it more possible that bob dole might lose a other gop candidates in that race got heard from everybody. we go way back to the last election before the passage of the federal election campaign act 1968. did not drown people out or did that make people hurt? i think what you find it makes people heard. >> clearly no list is agreement on the panel, i do want to go back to you, kim, because you been looking at tracking the money. in addition to these questions of how much influence individuals have, there's also questions of what the state of play is. one of the things i was interested in, this came something you wrote about, nick, george soros said, he swore the the bible or virtual bible that he wouldn't donate to super pac, and he decided to. so what do you think is changing, can come in the game right now terms of this election and setting precedent for super elections abou
we go back further, look at steve kemp -- jack kemp -- not jack kemp. steve forbes. and 96. bd drown out voters? no. emits been his own money which is all you can do at that time on his own campaign, made it more possible that bob dole might lose a other gop candidates in that race got heard from everybody. we go way back to the last election before the passage of the federal election campaign act 1968. did not drown people out or did that make people hurt? i think what you find it makes people...
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first answer, congressman steve king. steve: thank you. thank you for asking. the number one question i year while on college campuses. what are we going to do about student loans? had we make sure there is enough money to be borrowed. one of my answers is, -- first also student debt, graduating from college with a 24-$40,000 debt the you're carrying with you. first, ask you to remember your share of the national debt is 52,002 under and $88 today. that is something we all have to carry, and when you add this to in debt to debt it is to be quite high. the best thing you can do, and i challenge you because we are in this together is to do a good job of shopping for the best return on your tuition / grant dollar which is the best thing that can happen to keep tuition rates low. also, the federal government has taken over all the student loans, so they have essentially a monopoly on the student loan program. i would try to keep that into the private sector so there can be competition. right now the taxpayers are subsidizing the interest on student loans, and that
first answer, congressman steve king. steve: thank you. thank you for asking. the number one question i year while on college campuses. what are we going to do about student loans? had we make sure there is enough money to be borrowed. one of my answers is, -- first also student debt, graduating from college with a 24-$40,000 debt the you're carrying with you. first, ask you to remember your share of the national debt is 52,002 under and $88 today. that is something we all have to carry, and...
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steve raises what is a very fair point. i do think that we will make -- we would, in those circumstances make a major effort and it would fail. one of the reasons it would fail is because -- and this is not just theoretical. obviously i had discussions with the saudis. and, you know, when they -- when the king said if they get it we get it i was to be about series play with the consequences would be. after ten minutes of being highly eloquent on the subject he then said to me, if they did we get. so there is a reality here that they see their main competitor from every standpoint coming to the religious standpoint having an advantage over them, having to you know, a technological advantage, military advantage, the potential for leverage in the region. they're not trying to accept that. and i think the reason our policy is prevention is because we understand what the consequences will be if we don't succeed in maintaining and producing. that is the point of the containment. containment does not prevent the saudis for making
steve raises what is a very fair point. i do think that we will make -- we would, in those circumstances make a major effort and it would fail. one of the reasons it would fail is because -- and this is not just theoretical. obviously i had discussions with the saudis. and, you know, when they -- when the king said if they get it we get it i was to be about series play with the consequences would be. after ten minutes of being highly eloquent on the subject he then said to me, if they did we...
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recognize that "came from steve haworth. [laughter] the new republican party in congress voted just recently to pick an example to kill the census bureau annual survey and the economic census which has been used by businesses for a variety of vital purposes to establish transportation routes, track inventories, pick sites, used by police departments to track the crimes. and let me quote, representative daniel webster who sponsored it, of the survey, it is not scientific. it is a random survey. you can see why he is not on the intelligence committee. now, i have lots of other examples. of course to my examples on rhetoric that a stir with ellen west and move to many others which will have to discuss during rebuttal or other times. and that is my eight minutes. >> well, i want to begin by thanking the democratic state minister -- senator in maine who recently said that dick cheney should be executed for war crimes. gives the keep on giving. this way, the legend is told that when conquering roman generals returned to their vict
recognize that "came from steve haworth. [laughter] the new republican party in congress voted just recently to pick an example to kill the census bureau annual survey and the economic census which has been used by businesses for a variety of vital purposes to establish transportation routes, track inventories, pick sites, used by police departments to track the crimes. and let me quote, representative daniel webster who sponsored it, of the survey, it is not scientific. it is a random...
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. >> next, steve ratner talks about addressing the fiscal cliff. of he was joined by the state department's chief economist at the world affairs council to talk about president obama's second term and policy changes ahead. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much for that introduction. lori has said to me that since we started a bit late, provided it's okay with our speakers, we'll run a little built late, maybe five or ten after two. i'm going to ask them questions for about 40 minutes and then throw the floor open to you. so get your notebooks out and your questions, you can grill them in a moment. before starting, lori asked me to set the frame a little bit and to talk just for a moment about the u.s. competitiveness and the u.s. economy in a global context. and their actually was an oecd report that came out this morning that does that admirably. this report predicts that within four years, by 2016, the chinese economy will be bigger than the economy. and what the oecd report sort of further says, it's a great report. if you're
. >> next, steve ratner talks about addressing the fiscal cliff. of he was joined by the state department's chief economist at the world affairs council to talk about president obama's second term and policy changes ahead. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much for that introduction. lori has said to me that since we started a bit late, provided it's okay with our speakers, we'll run a little built late, maybe five or ten after two. i'm going to ask them questions...
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it turns out that i think what steve meant he had some interesting ideas. i didn't hear anything from them for many, many weeks, actually. i mean, actually the campaign -- the candidate was on tv one night one day, when i was watching that evening announcing his bid for president. this was around february, i think february 12th. if i remember right. and i watched it on tv. and my phone had been long dead. i thought, that's it. right. and then suddenly the phone starts to ring again and things are happening again. people talking to me. the next thing i know i'm being asked to come to chicago to assess staff. and to evaluate some of the operations and so i thought, this outside good. they offered me a job in management. and i thought, this is great. so i said there's only one thing i have to do there are been something that changed since december 26. i have to talk to my wife. and make sure that she's -- it's a fair affair, and i talked to her and we decided because my wife was now pregnant, and we wanted to make sure everything was okay with the baby. if eve
it turns out that i think what steve meant he had some interesting ideas. i didn't hear anything from them for many, many weeks, actually. i mean, actually the campaign -- the candidate was on tv one night one day, when i was watching that evening announcing his bid for president. this was around february, i think february 12th. if i remember right. and i watched it on tv. and my phone had been long dead. i thought, that's it. right. and then suddenly the phone starts to ring again and things...
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>> i agree with steve emphatically. one of my favorite sayings is virtual presence is actual absence. if you think about how you want these things to come out and we have an interest in that obviously, you have to understand you just cannot sit back and hope. hope is not a strategy. since the fall of the shop of iran particularly in the middle east, the people who have emerged from the toppling of dictators are generally the people who are the best organized and people who were the best organized are generally radical. if you don't want to go through another bad period you need to do things that counter that. steve's point about friends and allies in the region have significant -- significant equities. the president of the united states with these allies can maybe for example bring back -- help the israeli turkish relationship which would be instrumental. the two countries have best interest in how this plays out. i do think that the syrian question is particularly important because of what it means to iran and its futu
>> i agree with steve emphatically. one of my favorite sayings is virtual presence is actual absence. if you think about how you want these things to come out and we have an interest in that obviously, you have to understand you just cannot sit back and hope. hope is not a strategy. since the fall of the shop of iran particularly in the middle east, the people who have emerged from the toppling of dictators are generally the people who are the best organized and people who were the best...
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please wait for a microphone and stand up and identify yourself. >> my name is steve. i know you believe in a free-market system. here is my question. are you willing to except the fact that everything in the free market system with any government intervention except one are you willing to have one exception? some people well below a minimal level poverty, whenever definition and, would you be willing to subsidize those individuals with taxpayer money? because they meet some other criteria? >> it is funny. liberals say we're not capable of any change speaking from myself i have adjusted my plan to few as life goes on. look at to paul ryan and health plan ago stew everyone in america. we would lead and we do maintain a kind of assistance for the poor it is a perfectly good example. and i am willing to help the less well off but 1/2 to put limits and a knowledge did his extraordinary. >> i heard all of your remarks wider look back at the obama administration making it past two massive pieces of legislation? obamacare and dodd/frank. that does not sound like the death of
please wait for a microphone and stand up and identify yourself. >> my name is steve. i know you believe in a free-market system. here is my question. are you willing to except the fact that everything in the free market system with any government intervention except one are you willing to have one exception? some people well below a minimal level poverty, whenever definition and, would you be willing to subsidize those individuals with taxpayer money? because they meet some other...
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walter isakson's book on steve jobs is a perfect exple. phenanthgoeg on reg?e cutl ueiad etiy, actually. i read a wonderful book written by a british fly fisherman about his father in worldar i callblot m inoue48 aiumnd ac ro thurmond and dewey, fit election after the war. i'm reading the book about george bush and how he decided to go to war. mye inisd cer go gndolie at i read a lot of magazine stuff, a lot of essays. i read, i actually opened up a little correspondence with a et bthe onha aulfet h e herkbo toiny,soe a ttlexchange, and that was ite gratifying. i don't pretind to be a great writer. i am engetic, and i'mret od metis,ut treat ervein wt inls ifes. anhe sereats t booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. potica coultantme rv a picls anen enh gus wee fi.thail a t in "the long walk: a story of war and the life that follows," former u.s. air force officer exenisngeds ysician and author analyzes the impacthiv/aids has had on west africa in "our kind of inesnchyincontinent's challenge, exes cin iividuals and compani
walter isakson's book on steve jobs is a perfect exple. phenanthgoeg on reg?e cutl ueiad etiy, actually. i read a wonderful book written by a british fly fisherman about his father in worldar i callblot m inoue48 aiumnd ac ro thurmond and dewey, fit election after the war. i'm reading the book about george bush and how he decided to go to war. mye inisd cer go gndolie at i read a lot of magazine stuff, a lot of essays. i read, i actually opened up a little correspondence with a et bthe onha...
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i'm steve clemons, washington editor at large of the atlantic. i want to complement the museum and tell you how historic this is. i know this is a jam packed date. the party is coming up. this is one of three times in the history of the museum that they have allowed an outside group, the other happened to be the president of the united states and onetime madeleine albright when she was secretary of state or something coming in to do a teleconference. this is the third time they've opened up and in byrd for i during the day session, so this is a really great partnership. i wanted thank you for doing this. what we are going to do now, i have a friend here somewhere. the founder of circuit city. he has just written a book called the rise and fall of circuits city. to some degree there are uncomfortable truths when you think about nations and companies, certainly rise and fall stories. hopefully the united states is not on the fall side of this, but political campaigns are lousy times did think about the hard truths of what is happening one of the ha
i'm steve clemons, washington editor at large of the atlantic. i want to complement the museum and tell you how historic this is. i know this is a jam packed date. the party is coming up. this is one of three times in the history of the museum that they have allowed an outside group, the other happened to be the president of the united states and onetime madeleine albright when she was secretary of state or something coming in to do a teleconference. this is the third time they've opened up and...
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you can also call in with your questions with steve latourette, a member of the appropriations committee. and jason beck who governs the house roll call. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> you're watching c-span2 for politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. watch key public policy events on weeknights and every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our websites. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> more on how members of congress approach the fiscal cliff and expiring tax breaks and automatic spending cuts. "the wall street journal"'s eeo counsel annual meeting hosted senator joseph lieberman and former senators trent lott and james fassett. this little as an hour. >> they have the most expensive election in american history. both candidates have plenty of time to make their policy preference is well-known. then the president at the white house, the republicans have a house, no one really controlled the senate. so her
you can also call in with your questions with steve latourette, a member of the appropriations committee. and jason beck who governs the house roll call. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> you're watching c-span2 for politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. watch key public policy events on weeknights and every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and...
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or closing comments from steve schneck. [laughter] well, thank you all very much for attending this afternoon. the institute for policy research and catholic studies, as i said, does this for every election so, please, tune in to us for, um, you know, for commentary on the catholic vote over the year. and let's give, you know, a round of applause to mark rozell, to melissa deckman, to mark gray and to greg smith for their great performances today. [applause] i know i learned a lot myself. thank you all very much. everyone will be available for additional questions after the cameras are off. take care. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we go live this morning now to the national association of latino elected and appointed officials known as naleo as they hold a briefing on voting laws, the latino vote and the 2012 election. the organization this morning is releasing a new report assessing the impact of voting laws on latino voters, analyzing key races around the country where latinos are involved. this i
or closing comments from steve schneck. [laughter] well, thank you all very much for attending this afternoon. the institute for policy research and catholic studies, as i said, does this for every election so, please, tune in to us for, um, you know, for commentary on the catholic vote over the year. and let's give, you know, a round of applause to mark rozell, to melissa deckman, to mark gray and to greg smith for their great performances today. [applause] i know i learned a lot myself. thank...
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>> well, steve, thank you. and i also want to say we've had a chance to interact with the jobs council in our harvard business school effort, and i think we have tremendous alignment with -- in fact, there's tremendous alignment. the striking thing that we've found is that, actually, we all agree on almost everything that really needs to be done. except we just can't do any of it. and i think this is now an opportunity we have to perhaps break out of that. >> you think one of -- let me just interrupt. you said the immigration of highly-skilled individuals is one. >> yeah. i'll get to that. >> and it sounds like sean hannity's on your side now. >> well -- >> yeah, so is that a more doable -- >> i hope so. i hope so. you know, i think what i'd like to do is just to frame this up a little bit to say this fiscal cliff that we've been talking about all day here and talking about all week is really important. and we have to make progress right now towards a sustainable budget, and we've got a lot of experts sitting h
>> well, steve, thank you. and i also want to say we've had a chance to interact with the jobs council in our harvard business school effort, and i think we have tremendous alignment with -- in fact, there's tremendous alignment. the striking thing that we've found is that, actually, we all agree on almost everything that really needs to be done. except we just can't do any of it. and i think this is now an opportunity we have to perhaps break out of that. >> you think one of -- let...
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walter isaacson book on steve jobs is a perfect example of that. an international best-selling phenomenon and with good reason because of all the things that we could learn from it. >> what are you currently reading? >> i read eclectic lee. i read a wonderful book written by a british fly fisherman. i love that. the 48 campaign, which if you think this is wild, that was really wild. chairman and strom thurmond and do we, first election after the war. but terry anderson and the book about george bush and how he decided to go to war. my wife just finished catherine the great. it i have to go back and
walter isaacson book on steve jobs is a perfect example of that. an international best-selling phenomenon and with good reason because of all the things that we could learn from it. >> what are you currently reading? >> i read eclectic lee. i read a wonderful book written by a british fly fisherman. i love that. the 48 campaign, which if you think this is wild, that was really wild. chairman and strom thurmond and do we, first election after the war. but terry anderson and the book...
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[laughter] i felt bad for steve. i like steve. i chased after him just to make sure he knew no hard feelings. so every time i with a hotmail fa hayek so he knows there's no hard feelings. only recently did it occur to me his name is probably not steve. [laughter] so when i started this year, 2012, i was looking forward to two things, two steps i believed would help us fundamentally transformed our government into the government or something more closely represent income of assembling a government our founding fathers had envisioned for us. one of those events i knew it occur most likely sometime in june, probably towards the end of june, probably the last thursday in june which are quickly identified was the 28th. the other date i recognized as potentially transformative for a government cover the other date i recognized that i thought would probably have a positive impact on development of our constitutional system of government was november 6. i would like to say at the outset that i want to thank chief justice roberts for prepa
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i'm steve benjamin, the president of the national association of criminal defense lawyers. one of the rights that define us as a country is our freedom from warrantless government surveil lapse in the privacy of our home. with the use of dogs and advanced technology means that the walls within which we live and sleep are no longer sufficient to provide the privacy we value. next week, the supreme court will hear arguments in two cases concerning the use of dogs and asking whether the promise of the fourth amendment can protect our privacy in the way our homes no longer can. nacdl filed briefs in both cases because we understand our fourth amendment freedom is becoming a meaningless ideal we are powerless to protect, and because this is what we do as criminal defense lawyers. this is how we protect the rights of us all. when law-abiding citizens are subjected to unlawful searches producing no eve of crime, they have no recourse. they have no remedy other than a letter to the editor or an angry complaint. the only time that we have the opportunity to vindicate the rights that
i'm steve benjamin, the president of the national association of criminal defense lawyers. one of the rights that define us as a country is our freedom from warrantless government surveil lapse in the privacy of our home. with the use of dogs and advanced technology means that the walls within which we live and sleep are no longer sufficient to provide the privacy we value. next week, the supreme court will hear arguments in two cases concerning the use of dogs and asking whether the promise of...
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steve forbes decided to behave in not be the right wing man. summit romney, unlike many other candidates was faced with far more virulence challenges sucking up delegates and votes in pockets, none of them could never win but him, but they all did things that probably -- i'm not sure, but i suspect there was some week planning that nobody expected. i'm certain nobody expected it would have to come out and condemn contraception on the way to the nomination. i don't think he wanted to go as far as he did to endorsing congressman ryan and some of the others, but when you're facing michele bachmann and newt gingrich and sarah palin he did not have to run to scare people and senator santorum, you have a hard time finding room. if i think he made one mistake, nobody likes to be told vote for me because i can win even if you don't really like me. nobody likes to be told immobile for the lowest common denominator because you have no other winner, but that is some of what he ended up with. wait for the boom to drop. >> an interesting point that the proc
steve forbes decided to behave in not be the right wing man. summit romney, unlike many other candidates was faced with far more virulence challenges sucking up delegates and votes in pockets, none of them could never win but him, but they all did things that probably -- i'm not sure, but i suspect there was some week planning that nobody expected. i'm certain nobody expected it would have to come out and condemn contraception on the way to the nomination. i don't think he wanted to go as far...
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. >> steve austin watches on verizon. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979 brought as a public service by your television provider. the american enterprise institute recently hosted a debate on america's education system. they included scholars representing the obama and romney campaign to talk about their candidates stand on education policy and of the role of the federal government. this is just under 90 minutes. >> im rick hess director of education policy studies at the american enterprise institute. i'm delighted to have all of you with us for this discussion. a conversation with the obama and romney campaigns. we have with us today to of the more prominent surrogates who have advised both president obama and governor romney on issues relating to education, they have been out speaking on behalf of the campaigns helping to formulate strategies and policies the next four years. they are not official employees of either the administration or the romney campaign so they are speaking in that capacity as re
. >> steve austin watches on verizon. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979 brought as a public service by your television provider. the american enterprise institute recently hosted a debate on america's education system. they included scholars representing the obama and romney campaign to talk about their candidates stand on education policy and of the role of the federal government. this is just under 90 minutes. >> im rick hess director of education policy studies...
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that is, steve's great assets. >> he seems like a special case. you mention his love of all things arabic. does that start with 9/11? is that how he saw his mission after that or did he always have interest in the arab world? >> he was kind of an oddball. i mean that in a positive way. he was not high and tight. he was sort of stocky pity he didn't miss many meals. he was a red blood meat eating republican leading special forces support soldier. this is not a marshmallow by any means. but he saw the arabic culture as a sense of endless fascination and he loved the mythologies since a child he saw the world in very heroic kind of terms, and he's all islam as a sort of endless fascination. he had a koran with the original arabic. there is a picture in my book if you look easily to the cut the work desk and you will see the one he picked up in jordan ten or eight years earlier that his hour original arabic. he insisted of finding one and a provision also you could study it and understand the full and accurate picture of islam and an excerpt from the
that is, steve's great assets. >> he seems like a special case. you mention his love of all things arabic. does that start with 9/11? is that how he saw his mission after that or did he always have interest in the arab world? >> he was kind of an oddball. i mean that in a positive way. he was not high and tight. he was sort of stocky pity he didn't miss many meals. he was a red blood meat eating republican leading special forces support soldier. this is not a marshmallow by any...
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so we -- steve schmidt who was sitting next to me. we are running against the greatest celebrity in the world. no one knows anything about m -- hammett. what are we going to do? somewhere in that day we determined the paris hilton approach. i am a republican. i would say the answer is no, but at that time nobody knew. it was less for me to have to a explain to john mccain a wonderful brownson that his future lay in the hands of opponents of paris hilton. mom it was a long story about what happened at the beginning of that meeting. i will bore you with that. it was certainly in there. he was a little gas. what we did in august was the entire paris hilton's strategy, question his ability to lead, acknowledged to a great extent and expand his flamboyant as of fabulous actor and celebrity. second was how we did the republican convention. obama's was 70 or 80. a mile high stadium, whatever it's called now in denver. we were in a smaller, much smaller facility. st. paul. minneapolis. and so things looked really bleak, but we had to take --
so we -- steve schmidt who was sitting next to me. we are running against the greatest celebrity in the world. no one knows anything about m -- hammett. what are we going to do? somewhere in that day we determined the paris hilton approach. i am a republican. i would say the answer is no, but at that time nobody knew. it was less for me to have to a explain to john mccain a wonderful brownson that his future lay in the hands of opponents of paris hilton. mom it was a long story about what...
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i was looking for an adjective that captured this gentleman and i came up with this one, electric, steve clemens who is with the atlantic now and has been a great source here. of course the newseum shelby coffey who's been a key architect of this event. this year we are doing something different. we welcome a new partnership in the harvard institute of politics who've carried of the elections in side of the program track and so i would like to extend a sincere thanks to the director of the harvard institute of politics. and now i would like to thank our important presenting underwriters have made this event possible, and they are altria, bank of america, comcast, exxonmobil, thompson reuters and united technologies and the supporting underwriters of the american federation of teachers and the center for auto quality, and then for drinks tonight well-deserved drinks at the reception, the underwriter is google. finally if you're housekeeping notes. we are going to run the program straight through without breaks so you can infer what that means. please, silence your cell phone and this is j
i was looking for an adjective that captured this gentleman and i came up with this one, electric, steve clemens who is with the atlantic now and has been a great source here. of course the newseum shelby coffey who's been a key architect of this event. this year we are doing something different. we welcome a new partnership in the harvard institute of politics who've carried of the elections in side of the program track and so i would like to extend a sincere thanks to the director of the...
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>> thank you very much, steve. i will talk about the challenge of the securities sector reform in tunisia focusing particularly on the police unless the military for the simple reason that the military. i would take the case of tunisia and said it into some of the points that you made. attacks on the u.s. embassy in september if there was one place in north africa that everyone thought was a good place the was going to succeed it was believed to be successfully transitioned from authoritarian to the space rule and a great cost for optimism more for their refusal on the demonstrators and joined the demonstrations that brought down the government. the at ministry of defense and the armed forces in greece the civilian control of the military and the armed forces do not have a stake in the haqqani like the counterparts in egypt to be even in the internal security forces there were causes for hope. deily transition government authorized a study that produced a white paper that identified intelligence of the two issues t
>> thank you very much, steve. i will talk about the challenge of the securities sector reform in tunisia focusing particularly on the police unless the military for the simple reason that the military. i would take the case of tunisia and said it into some of the points that you made. attacks on the u.s. embassy in september if there was one place in north africa that everyone thought was a good place the was going to succeed it was believed to be successfully transitioned from...
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steve forbes decided to be haven not be the right wing minutes he had been. so mitt romney, unlike many other kennett's was faced with far more virulent challenges sucking out delegates in the votes and pockets. none of them could never win. they all did things that probably -- i'm not sure, but i suspect there was some week planning that nobody expected. i'm certain nobody expected it would have to come out and condemned contraception on the way to the nomination. i don't think he wanted to go as far as he did to endorsing congressman ryan and some of the others. when you're facing michele bachmann and newt gingrich and sarah palin and didn't have to run scared you will have a hard time finding room. if i can -- the fed thinking made one mistake, nobody likes to be told vote for me because i can win even if she go with let me. that some of what he ended up with even though he has a very smart teams around and. wait for the boom to drop. >> interesting point that the process is not water now which is seen to. more public. and in your opinion as the process be
steve forbes decided to be haven not be the right wing minutes he had been. so mitt romney, unlike many other kennett's was faced with far more virulent challenges sucking out delegates in the votes and pockets. none of them could never win. they all did things that probably -- i'm not sure, but i suspect there was some week planning that nobody expected. i'm certain nobody expected it would have to come out and condemned contraception on the way to the nomination. i don't think he wanted to go...
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house democratic leader nancy pelosi joins steve israel to introduce a new house democrat, new house democrats who were elected this month. these members will take office in january, and c-span is scheduled to cover this briefing live at 2 eastern right after the house gavels out. >> c-span invites middle and high school students to send a message to the president through a short video. let president obama know what's the most important issue he should consider in 2013 for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. c-span's student cam video competition is open to students grades 6-12, and the deadline is january 18, 2013. go online to studentcam.org. >> what i like about c pan's coverage is -- c-span's coverage is it's in depth. often times you'll cover an event from start to finish, and i can get the information that i need. i like to watch "the communicators," i like to watch congressional hearings. the events that you do at the national press club where there are policy leaders speaking, i find those useful. >> howard woolley watches c-span on verizon. c-span, created by america'
house democratic leader nancy pelosi joins steve israel to introduce a new house democrat, new house democrats who were elected this month. these members will take office in january, and c-span is scheduled to cover this briefing live at 2 eastern right after the house gavels out. >> c-span invites middle and high school students to send a message to the president through a short video. let president obama know what's the most important issue he should consider in 2013 for a chance to win...
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steve bartlett, who was a congressman from dallas and who later left the house, became mayor of dallas and now i think he's the executive director of the business council here, was there to testify. he had been very instrumental in not only helping us pass the a.d.a. but helping us pass the a.d.a. act amendments of 2008 which the second president bush signed into law. well, i say this to my friend from utah, this is not something that popped up overnight. this has been a long time coming, a lot of effort has been put into it and as i said, all the departments have said there is no conflict with our laws, we don't have to change anything. i also say to my friend that -- that, you know, we do want to be that city on the hill, that shining city on the hill and this is one area in which the united states has no equal. we have taken the lead in the world on this issue. countries come to us to see how they can do something, what they can do for people with disabilities. 116 nations have already signed it and the european union. if we don't sign it, then when other countries then they have to
steve bartlett, who was a congressman from dallas and who later left the house, became mayor of dallas and now i think he's the executive director of the business council here, was there to testify. he had been very instrumental in not only helping us pass the a.d.a. but helping us pass the a.d.a. act amendments of 2008 which the second president bush signed into law. well, i say this to my friend from utah, this is not something that popped up overnight. this has been a long time coming, a lot...
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we look at steve camp or jack kemp. in 96, did he drown out voters? no, he may spending his own money, all you could do at that time on his own campaign made it more possible that bob dole might do so that other gop candidates in the race got heard from. everybody did. we go back to the last election before the passage of the campaign act of 1968. mccarthy got his campaign running in a weakened because a bunch of people given 10 million bucks, which you can't do. did that drown people out or did that make to that drown people out or did that make >> well, clearly, no lack of disagreement on >> well, clearly, no lack of disagreement on this panel. i do want to go back to you, ken. you've been looking not tracking the money. in addition to these questions of how much influence individuals have come and there's so question of what the state of play. one of the thinkers interested in a something you wrote about, that george soros warned the bible or virtual bible that he wouldn't donate to the super pac and he decided to. so what do you think is changing,
we look at steve camp or jack kemp. in 96, did he drown out voters? no, he may spending his own money, all you could do at that time on his own campaign made it more possible that bob dole might do so that other gop candidates in the race got heard from. everybody did. we go back to the last election before the passage of the campaign act of 1968. mccarthy got his campaign running in a weakened because a bunch of people given 10 million bucks, which you can't do. did that drown people out or...
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>> steve, very simply, the u.s. situation with respect to our deficit and debt is a national security liability. we need our senior leadership. we need a senior leadership to take it on. we have an opportunity to do so. we have a requirement to do so. at the foundation of national power is ultimately economic comment and in terms of global influence, in terms of the ability to support a military, the economic is foundation. and we have i think the united states, both an opportunity to require it to get our house in order, and i believe that our 100 senators and members of the house will step up on this and sufficient majority in the coming months. >> how do you look at your surplus of the u.s.? does that say we have america under our control? >> we are one of the closest allies of the united states. so of course our position today to united states is very, very decisive, strengthen our relationship. so these are not, there is no intention for us to try to use this kind of economic relationship in different context.
>> steve, very simply, the u.s. situation with respect to our deficit and debt is a national security liability. we need our senior leadership. we need a senior leadership to take it on. we have an opportunity to do so. we have a requirement to do so. at the foundation of national power is ultimately economic comment and in terms of global influence, in terms of the ability to support a military, the economic is foundation. and we have i think the united states, both an opportunity to...
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and you're going to the frustration and people like steve. you have a president and you that we're working on immigration reform in congress. they're trying to get people like marco rubio, like myself. he decided by executive order to do something they had no authority to do. and he decided to do something like that, and instead of advancing the ball on immigration, what he did is he poisoned the well so we wouldn't be willing to work on immigration reform. if you think about it, the only reason we didn't have immigration reform during the bush administration is because two gentlemen, rahm emanuel in the house and barack obama in the senate decided to vote for an amendment to the immigration bills that actually help the union. they were backed by the unions, and they decided that they would poison the well by voting for those amendments that killed immigration reform. nobody talks about that in the immediate, but it was liberal labor unions and those barack obama in the senate who decided to poison the well. he did it again this time, and i t
and you're going to the frustration and people like steve. you have a president and you that we're working on immigration reform in congress. they're trying to get people like marco rubio, like myself. he decided by executive order to do something they had no authority to do. and he decided to do something like that, and instead of advancing the ball on immigration, what he did is he poisoned the well so we wouldn't be willing to work on immigration reform. if you think about it, the only...
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so we -- steve schmidt who was sitting next to me. we are running against the greatest celebrity in the world. no one knows anything about m -- hammett. what are we going to do? somewhere in that day we determined the paris hilton approach. i am a republican. i would say the answer is no, but at that time nobody knew. it was less for me to have to a explain to john mccain a wonderful brownson that his future lay in the hands of opponents of paris hilton. mom it was a long story about what happened at the beginning of that meeting. i will bore you with that. it was certainly in there. he was a little gas. what we did in august was the entire paris hilton's strategy, question his ability to lead, acknowledged to a great extent and expand his flamboyant as of fabulous actor and celebrity. second was how we did the republican convention. obama's was 70 or 80. a mile high stadium, whatever it's called now in denver. we were in a smaller, much smaller facility. st. paul. minneapolis. and so things looked really bleak, but we had to take --
so we -- steve schmidt who was sitting next to me. we are running against the greatest celebrity in the world. no one knows anything about m -- hammett. what are we going to do? somewhere in that day we determined the paris hilton approach. i am a republican. i would say the answer is no, but at that time nobody knew. it was less for me to have to a explain to john mccain a wonderful brownson that his future lay in the hands of opponents of paris hilton. mom it was a long story about what...
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steve here's the thing. we can take, we can make it people can download literature, customize it, bring it out to their neighbors and clubs whatever. we tested this product back in 2004 would mate it possible with a cell phone, internet connection and computer you could turn your kitchen table into a phone bank. you could turn your kitchen into a, like a staging area or mini campaign headquarters. i put it all on the line and i was like, i had idea probably not new. i had the idea and vendor i thought i could bring forward. i thought i did a great job, you know. i heard later that david plouffe, the campaign manager said, asked about me and steve said he had some interesting ideas. so i thought, that's good. it turns out that i think what steve meant was he had some interesting ideas. because i didn't hear anything from them for, for many, many weeks actually. i mean actually the campaign, the candidate was on tv. one night, one day i was watching it that evening, announcing his bid for president. this was a
steve here's the thing. we can take, we can make it people can download literature, customize it, bring it out to their neighbors and clubs whatever. we tested this product back in 2004 would mate it possible with a cell phone, internet connection and computer you could turn your kitchen table into a phone bank. you could turn your kitchen into a, like a staging area or mini campaign headquarters. i put it all on the line and i was like, i had idea probably not new. i had the idea and vendor i...
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what about the fact that somebody wanted this year's steve forbes or this year's i don't know eric prince or somebody to be competitive. why not find one of america's billionaires and one of these guys is worth $7 billion ored. it's a three-way race but purely by one billionaire's interest. we worried about it like this. so i think that we are in a position right now that's a very hard environment for political reform. because these corp. rueings here came through supreme court decisions and you don't repeal them. what you're talking about in order to fix this, i think, and i don't say this lightly is probably an amendment to the american constitution. and that's a big undertaking. [applause] so, you know, i think we are a long way off from fixing it. as they continue to strike down state efforts at the state level it's going to be hard to set a example an the country. it's the thing that worries me the most in all of politics. [applause] okay. >> we'll take a few more. we keep adding questions. two more brief, brief questions. your other questions? >> okay. go ahead. >> hi. to what exten
what about the fact that somebody wanted this year's steve forbes or this year's i don't know eric prince or somebody to be competitive. why not find one of america's billionaires and one of these guys is worth $7 billion ored. it's a three-way race but purely by one billionaire's interest. we worried about it like this. so i think that we are in a position right now that's a very hard environment for political reform. because these corp. rueings here came through supreme court decisions and...
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. >> i came up in the business at a time, as steve just made me think of it, as i always thought of it, there was a partnership between the creative and the business people, the corporate and the talent. and the difference today is that the corporate thinks they are the talent. [laughter] [applause] >> and indeed sometimes they are. i mean, i just showed my student the social network today, you know, definitely a film that was made and distributed by a corporation. it's probably one of the best films of the last decade. so even that is kind of a difficult area, i think. i just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. and also to urge you once more to help support the library foundation, but in particular to thank our panelists for coming tonight. [applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> and now from the 2011 texas book festival in austin, a panel on the arab spring with robin wright, james zogby and austin bay. this is just under an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the texas book festival. i'm rick dunh
. >> i came up in the business at a time, as steve just made me think of it, as i always thought of it, there was a partnership between the creative and the business people, the corporate and the talent. and the difference today is that the corporate thinks they are the talent. [laughter] [applause] >> and indeed sometimes they are. i mean, i just showed my student the social network today, you know, definitely a film that was made and distributed by a corporation. it's probably one...
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amr al-azm. >> thank you very much, steve. i'd like to take the opportunity to say thank you to steve. because without you, we would never really gotten as far as we have and i'd like to say that from the start. by june, 2010, when the syrian uprising had been sort of slowly building its pace, it was becoming clear to us who were involved in the opposition that there was a very critical component that was missing for us. it was our ability to answer a question that kept coming back to us time and time again. we were hearing it not just from the inside but we were hearing from the outside as well. by outside, i mean, both in terms of syrians living overseas, maybe living in the u.s., or elsewhere, and very importantly also from administrations, governments around the world, and obviously from the street i.t. from the people, the very people we were trying to convince that this is an important change that had to come that assad had to go. the question was coming back to us. who is the alternative? it was focused on who the perso
amr al-azm. >> thank you very much, steve. i'd like to take the opportunity to say thank you to steve. because without you, we would never really gotten as far as we have and i'd like to say that from the start. by june, 2010, when the syrian uprising had been sort of slowly building its pace, it was becoming clear to us who were involved in the opposition that there was a very critical component that was missing for us. it was our ability to answer a question that kept coming back to us...
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so let me start with you, steve. this is a question that was asked, and norm raised the debt ceiling vote or votes earlier, and so somebody asked was the debt ceiling debate an example of extremism, or do you think that it was an appropriate tool to constrain government? >> um, i'd answer it this way, the fight over the debt ceiling represents the new moment we're in when republicans are saying -- they've actually become now the buckleyite conservative party yelling stop, enough is enough. now, norm is right, it's a very dangerous thing to do although i'm not much inpressed by credit ratings. the same beam who said -- people who said that fannie mae and freddie mac were just find. the optimist in me thinks that however the election turns out that first be run of the debt ceiling which ended as a butt of a -- as a bit of a train wreck, it hike the fiscal equivalent of the reykjavik summit of arms control which everyone knows ended in failure and gloom and turned out to be the key moment when people came back and said,
so let me start with you, steve. this is a question that was asked, and norm raised the debt ceiling vote or votes earlier, and so somebody asked was the debt ceiling debate an example of extremism, or do you think that it was an appropriate tool to constrain government? >> um, i'd answer it this way, the fight over the debt ceiling represents the new moment we're in when republicans are saying -- they've actually become now the buckleyite conservative party yelling stop, enough is...
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i think picking up on steve's last point, steve morse last point. in your study, doctor four, the one that looks at the economic impact, the one from july that looks at the economic impact of both beauty and non-dod spending cuts, you've found a different effect, in other words, your assessment was that the cuts in nondefense spending would have a more harmful effect in terms of job losses and economic activity and what the defense spending, which is different from what others have concluded. i wonder if you'd come on -- comment on that lived but also steve moore's point, which is that what would be the economic effects of tax increases to cover the debt, in lou of sequestration. have you looked at that comedy have some sense of that, or i do ben or steve want to weigh in on that as well? >> and how long do i have? >> not long. with many people have been very patient. >> the big difference between the proposed cutbacks in dod and non-dod agencies is that non-dod agencies are largely labor driven, payroll driven. they don't have big procurement budge
i think picking up on steve's last point, steve morse last point. in your study, doctor four, the one that looks at the economic impact, the one from july that looks at the economic impact of both beauty and non-dod spending cuts, you've found a different effect, in other words, your assessment was that the cuts in nondefense spending would have a more harmful effect in terms of job losses and economic activity and what the defense spending, which is different from what others have concluded. i...
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. >> steve reed. >> chancellor aware because of his continuing inadequate level of funding to school building which today's statement is not correct, london councils across party body is estimating that by 2016, one in every 10 primary age children and son will not have a permanent school place? >> first of all, can i take this opportunity to welcome him to the house of commons. congratulate him on his victory. he rightly wants to speak on behalf of his constituents. what i would say is the pressure on london's schoolhouschoolhou ses, for some years is a huge issue when we came into office. we have provided additional capital spending for new school places. the money we announced over a billion pounds we announced today is also to deal with areas where there's high pressure. i will make sure that my runoff on education secretary -- [inaudible] >> julian smith. >> more money for the regional growth fund is great news for yorkshire. and the chancellor give details to the house of? >> there will be more money for the region growth fund. that has been help for securing and creating up to
. >> steve reed. >> chancellor aware because of his continuing inadequate level of funding to school building which today's statement is not correct, london councils across party body is estimating that by 2016, one in every 10 primary age children and son will not have a permanent school place? >> first of all, can i take this opportunity to welcome him to the house of commons. congratulate him on his victory. he rightly wants to speak on behalf of his constituents. what i...
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that is why i insist we need to support and not get back to the questions that are -- >> my name is steve deja dan with cantor fitzgerald. two days ago we memorialized the loss of our 658 employees 11 years ago. i would like to circle back to the response to the loss of ambassador stevens. someone mentioned it is very easy to be reactionary or overreactionary. we need as a nation to be clear and absolute to communicate that this type of activity is unacceptable. it goes beyond libya. it goes to our security as a nation and what i would like to hear from each of you participating and thank you, if you could, provide your thoughts on the range of possible responses that we have as a nation. educate me to what you think we can do. all the while respecting what we would all like to see achieved in libya which is the establishment of a free and productive democracy. thank you. >> want to >> [talking over each other] >> you go first. >> going to the question, specifically the issue of -- there are two components that need to happen. one is a comprehensive effective plan for security and not jus
that is why i insist we need to support and not get back to the questions that are -- >> my name is steve deja dan with cantor fitzgerald. two days ago we memorialized the loss of our 658 employees 11 years ago. i would like to circle back to the response to the loss of ambassador stevens. someone mentioned it is very easy to be reactionary or overreactionary. we need as a nation to be clear and absolute to communicate that this type of activity is unacceptable. it goes beyond libya. it...
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my job principally is to introduce steve heideman. steve stevens or senior advisor for middle east initiatives. he has taught at columbia. he is extensively published, has also directed the center for democracy and civil studies and civil society at georgetown university. he is a terrific asset to the institute. this project is one that is driven by syria with assistance, technical assistance and other kinds of assistance from the institute and sister institution in germany. it is very important that these kinds of efforts be driven by local populations, things that are handed down from the united states that typically don't work all that well and so we are very pleased that you're all here. i hope you have lots of questions and steve if i could turn this over to you. >> thank you very much gem for opening this morning and let me add my welcome. we are delighted to see you while here this morning. it's going to be of very a very very interesting conversation about syria after assad and the challenges of managing a post-assad transitio
my job principally is to introduce steve heideman. steve stevens or senior advisor for middle east initiatives. he has taught at columbia. he is extensively published, has also directed the center for democracy and civil studies and civil society at georgetown university. he is a terrific asset to the institute. this project is one that is driven by syria with assistance, technical assistance and other kinds of assistance from the institute and sister institution in germany. it is very...
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well, my name is steve schneck, i'm the director of the institute for policy research and catholic studies at the catholic university of america, and the institute is the sponsor of today's event. i'm pleased to say that the institute, um, has regularly now for about the last five or six elections done these special sessions on the catholic vote in which we really try to gather the foremost experts on the catholic vote, you know, to come and present, you know, the latest poll numbers and the latest trend lines related to that. so this is a continuation of something we've been working on for quite a while. the institute for policy research and catholic studies at the catholic university of america, um, is a kind of a public policy think tank. we try to look at contemporary issues of public policy from the perspective -- especially from the perspective of the catholic church's social teachings, but from their moral teachings as well. currently, the institute has about 40 fellows that are part of the institute, one of whom, mark rozell, i'll be introducing here in just a few minutes. we're a
well, my name is steve schneck, i'm the director of the institute for policy research and catholic studies at the catholic university of america, and the institute is the sponsor of today's event. i'm pleased to say that the institute, um, has regularly now for about the last five or six elections done these special sessions on the catholic vote in which we really try to gather the foremost experts on the catholic vote, you know, to come and present, you know, the latest poll numbers and the...
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that, but still, i'm sure they're probably 20 hands after the want of their questions addressed, so steve, you have to do a reprise here sometime. this is a really important topic, in my view. one that still needs a lot of work. we've identified a number of issues that some folks that have already left to work to go work them. thanks for your interest, participation, but it is at hard labor, and looked in the future for your continued engagement. thanks very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> on c-span2 this month american enterprise institute analyze election results are >> i need some help over here. >> does anyone know have? >> he just rolled himself out. >> we ended up following him after this plane ride for many months, as i said. and he ended up injuring himself into an program at walter reed where he ended up using acupuncture, using meditation, using other techniques to wean them off all the drugs he was on, and through this program he actually was able to walk out at walter reed on his own two feet. so i really commend the military for two things. for one, for allowing
that, but still, i'm sure they're probably 20 hands after the want of their questions addressed, so steve, you have to do a reprise here sometime. this is a really important topic, in my view. one that still needs a lot of work. we've identified a number of issues that some folks that have already left to work to go work them. thanks for your interest, participation, but it is at hard labor, and looked in the future for your continued engagement. thanks very much. [applause] [inaudible...
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steve was the fourth national board member of the f.o.p. to die in the line of duty and grant is here today representing those four, but more especially his friend, steve kenner. thank you, grant. [applause] >> next i welcome linda henning, national president of fraternal order of police auxiliary, our partners in this memorial service. shall be welcoming you all in a few minutes. turning now to my left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant at arms of the house of representatives. this is his first service as the house sergeant at arms, and we are very grateful for his presence. [applause] >> next is the acting chief of our host agency denied state capitol police. tom reynolds is joining us for the first year as the acting chief. thank you, chief. [applause] next achieve reynolds is the acting director of the pier of a call tobacco firearms and explosives, mr. todd jones. thank you director. [applause] >> we are also very pleased to have with us today the director the united states marshal service. thank you. [applause] >> again joining
steve was the fourth national board member of the f.o.p. to die in the line of duty and grant is here today representing those four, but more especially his friend, steve kenner. thank you, grant. [applause] >> next i welcome linda henning, national president of fraternal order of police auxiliary, our partners in this memorial service. shall be welcoming you all in a few minutes. turning now to my left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant at arms of the house of representatives....